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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, AUGUST 9. THE LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo saek at the usual hour. CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. VALUATION (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill also went through Committee. EXCISE DUTIES BILL. This Bill was read a second time. The Game Duties Bill was read a second time. COMMON FIELDS ENCLOSURE BILL. On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGH the House went into Committee on this Bill. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that the object of the Bill was to afford facilities for the enclosure of com mon, arable, and meadow land, and not for the en closure of waste lands. If the Bill did not suffi ciently provide for this object, he was ready to ac cept of any amendments whatever that would accom plish that object, without the slightest possibility of doubt. The Bill had not for its object the enclosure of waste land —it was confined entirely to land that was cultivated. He was desirous to be permitted to put in various amendments, and have them printed, and then they might consider the Bill on Thursday or any other day that would be more suitable. He would shortly state what amendments he was going to put in. First of all, he did not think it just or expedient that persons who possessed lands to the extent of two thirds of the value should have the power to force all the proprietors, however numerous or preponderating in num ber, to change the position of their lands, and come into their plans. He proposed that this only should be done by two-thirds in number as well as value. The Noble Lord referred to some other amendments, respecting the ap pointment of an umpire, and the retaining of the present maps, valuations, &c., and concluded by moving that the amend ments be printed. Lord HOLLAND had been much pressed to submit an amendment, which would secure an open' space near large towns, or all towns containing over 5,000 inhabitants. There were some parts of the Bill which were in his opinion very objectionable, and he confessed that it took him com pletely by surprise. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, under the Bill as it at present stood no waste could be enclosed. If such an amendment as that suggested by the Noble Lord were pro posed, it would be better not to pass the Bill at all. After a few words from Lords LYNDHURST and HOLLAND, The Duke of RICHMOND suggested that, after the amendments were printed, it would be better to refer the Bill to a Select Committee. The Bill was a most impor tant one. Lord ELLENBOROUGH complained of the incon venience of having such important Bills sent up at so late a period of the Session. The Bill was then reported, and the amendments ordered to be printed. SECULAR JURISDICTION (YORK AND ELY). The Secular Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. MEDICAL WITNESSES. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the second reading o: the Medical Witnesses Bill. After a few words from the Duke of RICHMOND. the Bill was read a second time. SCOTCH COURT OF SESSION BILL. The LORD-CHANCELLOR moved the second read ing of this Bill, which he said was founded upon the Re ports of two Royal Commissions of 1834 and 1835. The Bill was to effect a saving of great expense to suitors in the fees payable by them, which it was calculated would amount to from 15,0001. to 19,000/., being one-fourth of all the fees now payable by them. Their Lord ships would, therefore, be most anxious to pass such a Bill, for otherwise it would be impossible for the savings to commence for another year. The Bill was one of mere detail, for the purpose of reducing salaries and abolishing unnecessary offices. There was, however, one provision in the Bill for the purpose of altering the busi ness of the Court. Heretofore the most important business had been left to the decision of the Junior Judge— the Bill proposed that that business should be henceforth transacted in full Court, and that tile Junior Judge should take his place in that Court. It provided also that in place of 4 principal clerks of Session and 4 of Issue, that four should do all the business, and that in place of 8 clerks assistants there should be only four. It also reduced some minor offices, which it was unnecessary for him to men tion. These were the principal objects of the Bill, and as it had been introduced in the House of Commons before the time fixed the other night for Scotch Bills, he hoped their Lordships would give the Bill a second reading. The Earl of ROSSCYN complained, and thought he had just reason to complain, that a Bill of so much impor tance as this should be introduced into that House at a period when they could not have a fair opportunity for its examination. This Bill involved changes of the highest and greatest importance in the Supreme Court of Judicature in Scotland, and considering the importance of the measure, and the great doubts that rested upon it, he confessed that lie did not think they were acting fairly by that House, by the Court of Session, or by the people of Scotland, in bring ing forward this measure at this late period of the Session. It had been stated that the effect of the Bill would be to equalize the duties of the Lords Ordinary ; but as it gave a power to the suitors to apply to whichever of the Lords' Ordinary they pleased, it would overload any one of them who happened to be popular with business to the exclusion of the others. The Noble Lord concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time that day three months. The LORD CHANCELLOR explained. Lord WYNFORD complained of the late period of the Session at which a Bill of so much importance was in troduced. Whether the Bill was a good or a bad one, they ought to have time to consider it. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers were— For the second reading 27 Against it Majority against the second reading —lo STANNAIES COURTS BILL. The Earl of FALMOUTH rose to move the second reading of the above Bill, 'and opposed the proposition which it appeared had been made by some other Noble Lord for its postponement. After a few words from Lord WYNFORD, we under stood the Bill to be postponed. The County Elections Bill went through Committee. The Report of the Stamp Duties on Newspapers Bill was received, and the third reading appointed for to-morrow. The Foreign Lotteries Bill, the Gold and Silver Plate (Scotland) Bill, the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill, and the Western Australia Bill were read a second time. Messengers from the Commons brought up their Lord ships' amendments to the Lighthouses Bill, which the House of Commons had agreed to with amendments. The amendments of the House of Commons having been agreed to, the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Auousr 9. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Mr. BRADSHAW brought up the Report on the Ber wick Small Debts' Court Bill. The LORD ADVOCATE presented a petition, signed by the Moderator of the Synod of the Secession Church of Scotland, against the Scotch Universities' Bill as it had been altered in the House of Lords. Mr. WILKS had been asked to second this petition, which he did with much pleasure. The respected Clergy men of the Secession Church in Scotland were anxious to extend religious liberty in th e U n i vers i t i es rat h er t h an to circumscribe them as the Bill would now do. He was glad that the Bill had been left over till another Session. SCOTCH MUNICIPAL BILL. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Newton, .Ayr, against the Scotch Municipal Bill, by which their borough was to be joined to another. He was glad that the Bill had been postponed, and hoped it would receive more attention. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition signed by 500 inhabitants of Manchester, praying that the House would restore to his country the patriot Arthur O'Connor, who had been banished for thirty years for endeavouring to promote the freedom of his c ountry. T hey prayed that the House, when doing justice to Ireland, would show mercy to this respected individual. Mr. E WART presented a petition from a literary so ciety in Wales, praying that no bishops might be appointed in that country who were not acquainted with its language. Mr. M'KINNON brought up the R eport on the Co mmittee on Turnpike Roads. NAVY ACT. Mr. C. WOOD begged leave to call the attention of the House for one moment to a mistake that had been made in a Morning newspaper, respecting some observa tions he had made yesterday evening. He had stated dis tinctly and he was happy to see that three out of the four Morning newspapers had correctly given his words—that some officers had been removed from the list in conse quence of their having conducted themselves in such a man ner as officers and gentlemen should not conduct themselves, but that these words were not intended to apply to a large number of officers who had been removed in consequence of the rules of the service. A mistake had been made in one of the Morning newspapers, which stated that the words attributed to him were intended to apply to those officers who had retired from the service for a breach of duty rather than stand a court martial. He hoped that those who saw the mistake would have an opportunity of seeing it corrected in the same paper. POST OFFICE. Lord SA ND ON presented a petition from an individual, wh nitik4ittizliktd had the misfortune to be dismissed from ...,:: ( 21. D. 11,L3 ) - , ' 4 . :2 ' '' 0 ,'''' q• ,',77, v -*.. ..„ - l '> , ... the Post-office, and the petitioner prayed that the House would direct an inquiry to be made into the circumstances attending his dismissal. The Noble Lord then proceeded to read the statements in the petition, and concluded by stating he considered the case had not received the investi gation it deserved ; he therefore trusted the House would institute some further inquiry. Mr. LABOUCHERE contended that the petitioner had no right to complain of the manner in which he had been treated. The Report now laid upon the table of the House from the Post-office Commission, disclosed a system which was nothing less than an organized system of public plunder, demanding of the Government, wherever guilt was traced home, that they should inflict the severest punishment they had it in their power to impose, namely, dismissal from his Majesty's service.—( Hear.) He would shortly tell the House what was the course pur sued by the Government towards the individual now peti tioning the House. When the Sub-Commissioners com menced their investigation, they called Mr. Johnston, who had large public stores under his charge. After his first examination other individuals made statements completely at variance with them. Mr. Johnston was recalled, with a view to enable him to reconcile the discrepancies in his accounts. Mr. Johnson had begun by refusing to give the Com missioners any informatipn on these points, and they, therefore, considered it their duty to report these circumstances to the Commissioners in London, and the result of that was that Mr Johnson was sus pended. The Sub-Commissioners found what they con sidered so strong a case of malversation on the part of Mr. Johnson and the Storekeeper-General, that they felt bound to suspend them for the purpose of call ing them before them to explain the course they had pursued. Mr. Johnstone was not enabled to explain his case suf ficiently, and the result was, that he was dismissed from the public service. So careful were the Post Office upon the subject, and so anxious to do that which was right, that they directed two persons to look into the whole matter, and see whether it was possible that this thing could be the result of negligence, or whether it had not arisen from fraud ; and the conclusion come to was that what had taken place was the result of fraud. As at present ad- , vised, he did not see any reason why a different decision should be come to, and he could not, therefore, see any reason for the inquiry. Lord SANDON thought the case of the petitioner was well worthy of the consideration of the House, and he hoped, therefore, they would give it every attention. Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Report had not been sent to the officer alluded to, because the Commissioners were dissatisfied with the former one. He could not hold out any hopes to his Noble Friend that the Government would again open the case for a new enquiry. Lord SANDON understood that this gentleman had been dismissed on the report of an officer who had himself received his discharge in a few days for gross negli gence. He hoped, therefore—(Loud cries of " Order," and " Spoke, spoke.") Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition, signed by 90 Welshmen inhabiting London, complaining that the clause prohibiting the appointment of all persons as clergymen and bishops in the Principality had been struck out of the Ecclesiastical Bill. He (Mr. Aglionby) of course could not yet, in a Parliamentary way, know any thing of the matter ; but if the clause for such a purpose which was inserted after a division in that House were actually struck out, he hoped there was firmness in the House to restore it. The Hon. Member had also a petition to pre sent from a person named Wheatley, of Cumberland, praying the House to interfere and oblige the Go vernment to use all their influence to procure the release of Dr. Beaumont, a British subject, who was doomed to perpetual imprisonment in France by an ex post facto law. Dr. BOWRING had intended to have brought up the case of Dr. Beaumont before the House, but had been pre vented by the lateness of the period.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He did judge of the laws as applicable to French subjects, but he thought it was not for the honour of this country to remain quiet under such a code. There was not one single fragment of evidence against Beaumont before the Court of Peers—his name was not even men tioned, yet he was condemned to perpetual imprisonment. This tribunal was a most atrocious one, where the Judges were political opponents and partisans, and by which, with out any defence, and without any evidence being alleged against him, he and a mass of other individuals were con demned to perpetual imprisonment. This was a case in which it became that House, on some future occasion, to interfere to obtain the production of the documents con nected with the case. He trusted, however, that before this could be accomplished the French Government would put an end to the proceedings against this unfortunate in dividual, which had inflicted so strong a wound on English feeling. Sir R. INGLIS would ask whether anything had hap pened to a British subject which would not have happened to a French subject under similar circumstances ? Mr. HUME said that every British subject who went to France went there to live under the existing laws, and ought not to be subjected to any new laws, or brought before a tribunal more monstrous than bad ever appeared in any country. It was the duty of the British Govern ment to protect its subjects in France, and to see that the liberties of British subjects were not unduly interfered with. He considered the present case one of gross oppression, and he trusted that it would be soon redressed. Mr. AGLIONBY would not then argue this question as it would shortly come before the House, and he would then take an opportunity of showing that this was a case for the interference of this country. Mr. `VALLEY would ask whether there had been any communication between the Governments of France and England on the subject ? Lord J. RUSSELL hoped that the Hon. Member would give notice of his question. Mr. AGLIONBY gave notice that he would bring the subject before the House to-morrow. MARINE INSURANCES. Mr. ROBINSON gave notice that he should, early in the next Session of Parliament, submit a motion to the House for the reduction of the duty on Marine In surances. CANADA. Mr. HUME gave notice that he should, on Thursday next, present a petition from the Assembly of Upper Canada, when he should move for the production of certain papers connected with Canada to be laid before the House. MILLION LOAN.--IRISH CLERGY. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, that the Order of the Day be read for the consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Municipal Corporation Act Amendment Bill, Mr. D. W. HARVEY wished to ask whether any steps had been taken, or were in contemplation, to enforce the arrears now due to those who were to receive money under the Act passed in 1833 in aid of the Irish clergy ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had given notice of a Bill to suspend the re-payment of instalments to owners of tithes, and therefore, when he moved that the Bill should be brought in, it would be the proper time for the Hon. Member for Southwark to bring forward the subject. Mr. HARVEY said he should adopt the Noble Lord's suggestion. CAPTAIN BOLDER() would beg to ask whether the Government considered that any stain was affixed to the character of Lieutenant Hill. If he was satisfied on that point, he would at once withdraw his motion. His only offence had been refusing to obey illegal authority. Mr. C. WOOD could only say that the conduct of the Admiral had been approved of, and that of Captain Hill disapproved of. SWITZERLAND. Dr. BOWRING begged to ask the Noble Lord below him (Palmerston), whether any interference had taken place on the part of England to induce the Swiss Government to violate the laws of hospitality by giving up the refugees who had taken shelter in that country. He understood that a note had been addressed by Count Montebello to the Swiss Mi nister on the subject, and although there might be a case made out against some of the German re fugees, he had heard with much surprise that the French and Polish refugees were also included in the order. Although the name of England had been intro duced, he was satisfied that she had taken no part in this infringement upon the liberties of Switzerland, and he now hoped the Noble Lord, the policy of whose Govern ment appeared to be to promote the liberties rather than the despotism of Europe, would give him an assurance that the name of England had been unwarrantably introduced on the occasion. Lord PALMERSTON said that the English Govern ment had been no parties to th e ma tt er . At the same time he should not be performing his duty if he gave that strict and naked answer, because inferences might be drawn which ought not : every independent nation had a right un doubtedly to afford protection to foreigners, but it was the duty of every Government to take care that in doing so they did not disturb neighbouring States. He believed that the French G overnmen t were conv i nce d t h at t h ere was i n Switzerland a number persons who had linked them selves together, for the purpose, if possible, of sub verting the G overnment o f F rance, an d t h ere f ore i t was t h at applicatio n had been made to the Swiss Government. If he might be allowed to advise the Swiss Government, he should say, certainly that such persons ought to be required to leave the territory.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentle man had thought the French Government had acted lightly ; but when the whole of the circumstances were looked to, be thought it would be found that they bad had good ground for what they had done. As far as the English Government were concerned, they felt the full importance of maintaining the independence of Switzerland, and it was part of the policy of the States of Europe that its independence should be recognized. Mr. HUME wished to know from the Noble Lord whe ther the Government of this country had concurred in the request ; he objected to the Government of this country be ing regulated by the French. Lord PALMERSTON said that the English Govern ment had taken no efficacious steps upon the subject. Dr. BO WRING felt obliged to the Noble Lord for the statements he had made ; but he must be allowed to say, there were a great number of Italian refugees there who had been told they must go to America. CASE OF LIEUTENANT HILL. Captain BOLDERO t h en rose to move, pursuant to the notice he had given, for a copy of the charge and minutes of evidence of a Court of Inquiry held at Sheerness in February last, touching the con duct of Lieut. Hill, lately in the command of his Majesty's ship Alban, who had been superseded without inquiry. The Gallant Member then stated the circumstances of Mr. Hill's case at Malta, from which it appeared that after having got his written orders to proceed to England, he was desired by the Admiral's Secretary to stop and take home a passenger. He refused, but made a signal to see whether he was to go on to England or not— the signal was answered in the affirmative, and he went on. He, however, was recalled by another signal, and superseded. The admiral, however, found he was moving, and appointed him afterwards to his own ship. On coming to England he applied for his old appointment, but was told he ought to go out to Malta and stand his trial. He was refused any charge, and all his witnesses were in England. Mr. Hill had not been guilty of any disgraceful conduct, and ought to have a fair trial. He had been 26 years in the service. He had served under six Admirals and twenty Post Captains, all of whom had given him certificates of good character ; yet he was now turned ofd" with disgrace. He was afraid he h a d s t a ted the ca s e but feebly, not being a sailor ; but he hoped he had stated it sufficiently to show that the greatest injustice had been done. The Hon. and Gallant Officer concluded by moving for a copy of the charge, if any, and accounts of evidence of a Court of In quiry held at Sheerness, in February last, touching the conduct of Lieutenant Hill, R.N., late in the command of His Majesty's steam-vessel Alban, in the Mediterranean, superseded without enquiry. Mr. HUTT seconded the motion, and bore testimony to the petitioner being an intelligent and honourable man. Mr. C. WOOD did not think the House of Commons was the proper tribunal for discussing questions of mere military or naval discipline ; and he would ask any Member of the House, especially an officer holding his Majesty's Commission, whether a Commander-in-chief under any cir cumstances might not remove an officer from the command of a vessel ? Captain GORDON thought if the statements which had been made were borne out, this officer had been hardly treated. He thought the Admiralty ought to make some inquiry on the subject. Mr. HUME defended the conduct of the petitioner. It had been said that there were most extraordinary circumstances connected with the case, but none of these extraordinary circumstances had been brought forward. Lord J. RUSSELL thought the Hon. Member was most irregular in bringing forward the motion on the moving of an Order of the Day. It was impossible for the House of Commons to enter into the merits of the case without a very strong case was made out upon the subject. Admiral ADAMS defended the conduct of the peti tioner. Sir ROBERT INGLIS considered the conduct exer cised towards the petitioner most justifiable. Captain BOLDERO should not divide the House upon it. He considered he had done his duty in bringing the case of Mr. Hill before the House, and he trusted the Government would reconsider the matter.—(Hear.) MUNICIPAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition against the Lords Amendments to the Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill. The Order of the Day having been read for the con sideration of the Lords Amendments to the Municipal Act (Amendment) Bill, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the time had arrived when it became his duty to state to the House the course which it was his intention to recommend with reference to the amendments under consideration. The Bill for amend ing the Municipal Corporations Act had been brought in by his Hon. and Learned Friend the Attorney-General. It was a measure of very great importance. After having undergone much discussion in that House, it was sent to the House of Lords, where it received several amendments, to the nature of which he was about to call the attention of the House. There were two or three of those amend ments—two especially—the principle of which he could by no mans agree to. One was with reference to the manner in which the chairman was to be chosen to pre. side at the election of the mayor and council of a Corpora tion when there was an equality of votes ; the other was with reference to the administration of charitable trusts. It was with respect to those two amendments particularly that he was desirous to call the attention of the House, to the situation in which the House of Lords had placed them by the course which that House had thought proper to adopt. With regard to the first of those amendments, al though he certainly considered the mode of choosing a chairman to preside at the election of a mayor and alder man, when there was an equality of votes, very unadvisa ble, being such a one as might lead to a representation of the borough for a time which would by no means be a fair representation of it ; yet, if that had been all the diffe rence which existed between the two Houses with re ference to the measure under consideration, he might not have thought it necessary to press his view of the subject. At the same time he must say, that the provision introduced into the Bill by the House of Lords, that, in the event of such an equality as that to which he had alluded, recourse was to be had, not to the opinion of the burgesses at large, or any popular body, but to that of an individual to be selected by lot, was a violation of respect to the principle of popular election on which the Municipal Act itself was founded. Still, he repeated, that if that amendment stood alone, he might perhaps have consented to concede it. But with regard to the second amendment to which he had ad verted, the amendment in the manner of appointing chari table trustees, he hoped that he should have the general concurrence of the House in his motion for rejecting it.— (Hear, hear, hear.) He entertained this expectation the more confidently, because, although when the Bill was ori ginally introduced into that House, many of its provisions were severely criticised by Hon. Members on the other side, and great fault was found with some of them ; it was generally allowed on all sides that nothing could be more desirable than to put an end to the abuses which resulted from the manner in which the old trustees discharged their functions.—(Hear, hear, hear.) When he (Lord John Russell) stated in the course of those debates that an amendment proposed by the Right Honourable Ba ronet, the Member for Tamworth, would have the effect of replacing those trustees in their offices, the answer by the other side of the House was—" It is not intended to have any such effect ; for we are as anxious as you can be to put an end to the existence of a power which has been so much abused in its exercise."—(Hear, hear, hear.) He trusted, therefore, that there would be in that House a general concurrence in the opinion, that it was inex pedient that the power so vested, and which had been so abused, should be continued for another year.....(Hear.) Was it possible to doubt the expediency of at once termi nating such a power ? Besides the general knowledge which every man must possess on the subject, were there not various Reports on the table of the House, in which it was distinctly stated that in many places it had been the custom of trustees of charitable funds to pay away those funds to individuals of one political party, to the exclusion of all others?—(Hear, hear.) He was sorry to be compelled to adopt the course which he was taking ; but he felt that the House would be countenancing the abuses in question, if they agreed to an amendment which continued them for another year.—(Hear, hear.) The evil had been so universally admitted, even by those who entirely differed from his Majesty's present Govern ment on general politics, that he was at a loss to con ceive by what argument the expediency of its continuance could be supported. The only cause which he had heard assigned for that continuance was, the expectation that a Noble and Learned Lord, who had been prevented by indisposition from attending in his place in Parlia ment during the present Session, might probably in another year be prepared with the general measure on the subject which he had last year given notice it was his intention to produce. No man could regret more than he (Lord John Russell) did the circumstances which had during the present Session deprived the country of the exercise of the Noble and Learned Lord's talents in the other House of Parliament ; but really it appeared to him that that absence was by no means a sufficient reason to warrant the continuance for another year of the abuses in question. It certainly was not a ground on which Par; hament ought to legislate, that they should wait a year before they corrected certain existing and generally acknow ledged abuses, in the hope that in the next session a Noble and Learned Lord might bring forward a measure in which the correction of those abuses would be comprehended. Had the amendment of the Lords tended to make the funds in question m ore a ppli ca bl e t o th e p urposes f or w hi c h they were intended, and to prevent their application to any other purpose, he should not have objected to it ; but, so far from that, it went to alter the whole scope arid cha racter of the Bill.—(Hear, hear, hear.) There might cer tainly be some temporary inconvenience sustained by the loss of the Bill. But he would much rather incur that in convenience ; he would much rather that the power now enjoyed by the Trustees should remain for a time in abey ance ; he would much rather that the Lord Chancellor should be called upon to make such orders as the peculiar circumstances of the case might require, than adopt such an amendment as the House of Lords had introduced into the Bill.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He would not consent to continue to any set of men the power of distributing large sums of money under pretence of applying them to cha ritable purposes, while, in fact, they were bestowing them upon persons belonging to their own party.—(Hear, hear, hear.) For these reasons he would now move, that that House disagree with the amendments in the Municipal Act Amendment Bill to which he had adverted.--(Loud cheers.) Lord STORMONT denied that the House of Lords had thrown out the clause in the Bill to which the Noble Lord had been principally referring on the ground of the illness of a Noble and Learned Lord, and the expectation that that Noble and Learned Lord might in another year be prepared with a general measure on the subject. They threw it out because they thought that under its operation the administration of charitable trusts in a borough would be influenced by party considerations. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL believed that the amendment made in the House of Lords had been so made, not because that House approved of the measure, but be cause their Lordships had been influenced by the opinions of members of the old corrupt Corporations.—(Hear, hear.) The clause introduced by the House of Lords was, as his Noble Friend had observed, not within the scope and cha racter of the Bill. He acknowledged that the sacrifice recommended by his Noble Friend was great ; but he thought it much better to make that sacrifice than to concur in the Lords' amendments.—(Hear, hear.) The old trustees had abused their trust, and there could be no hope of their reformation. If the first amend ment adverted to by his Noble Friend were adopted in two boroughs it would be constantly determined by a cast of the dice whether the representatives of those boroughs should be Whig or Tory. Surely it was much better to refer that question to the constituent body—to the electors —to ascertain their opinions on the subject.—(Hear, hear.) That point, however, his Noble Friend had said, if it were alone, he might give up ; but the other amendment, by which the present trustees of charitable trusts were to be continued in power for another year, his Noble Friend had very properly declared his determination not to give up. Mr. BARCLAY, although he lamented the course which the House of Lords had taken, was not prepared to agree to the motion of the Noble Secretary of State. Mr. HUME expressed his surprise that the Hon. Gen tleman, who admitted the existence of the abuses in ques tion, nevertheless thought there would be no harm in con tinuing those abuses for another year. He (Mr. Hume) had been informed only yesterday that at Coventry the trustees of the charitable funds had given 4/. a head to voters of certain political opinions, and that up to the last hour the charitable funds had so been mal-administered. The course taken by the Noble Lord appeared to him a very proper course. The Noble Lord had stated, and he (Mr. Hume) was very sorry to hear that statement, that he should have been prepared to make a great con cession to the House of Lords.—(Cries of Hear.) Surely the time had come when the Noble Lord must have learnt from experience that no concession to the House of Lords could be beneficial, and that the more he conceded the more that the House (the House of Commons) would be trampled upon.—( Hear, hear.) The Bill under conside ration could only be lost. Let it be so. Let it go forth to the public that it had been thrown out to please a poli tical party. The question between the parties must be settled not within, but outside those walls. The people of England were the party interested. Let them confess their opinion at elections. Let them not foolishly elect so large a body of the Members of that House who were opposed to all amelioration and improvement. If the people were so negligent or so ignorant of their duties as to send so many Anti-Reformers into that House, they must expect the natural consequences. If at the next election the elec tors did their duty—if they did not, as they had foolishly done at the last election, return so many Members opposed to the cause of the people—if they were not so shortsighted as, under any pretext, to send men to the House of Com mons as their representatives who were opposed to every amendment in the law or in any other of our institutions, a different scene would present itself. Was it to be won dered at that the House of Lords, seeing so large a body of Anti-Reformers in the House of Commons—seeing that there were no fewer than 300 Members of that character, should be encouraged to treat the people with contempt ? for it was to treat the people with contempt to reject every measure of reform proposed to them. He hoped the Noble Lord would soon see the inexpediency of making any concessions to the other House. Let them be left to themselves, and they would become martyrs of their own conduct. They had now arrived nearly at the close of the session ; and the people of England would naturally ask every Hon. Member on his return to his constituency what had been done in the course of it. What was the answer that must be given ? " Not a single measure of importance has been carried." If the cause were asked, the reply must be, " The Tories would not let us ; we earried se veral valuable measures in the House of Commons, but they were defeated in the House of Lords." The honest Members of that House would stand acquitted by the country. They would plainly say to them, "We have done our best, but we have been beaten by the other House. If you want Reform, elect Representatives who are favourable to Reform. We shall not then struggle day after day, and night after night, and yet at the close of the session find that we have accomplished nothing." If the people would not attend to this—if they wanted to see a majority of Anti-Reformers, in God's name let them have it, and let the Anti-Reformers take the reins of Govern ment.—(Hear.) M. CHARLTON said that the whole burden of the Hon. Member's song was the word " Anti-Reformer." The Hon. Gentleman charged his (Mr. Charlton's) side of the House with being Anti-Reformers. That he denied, al though they were certainly opposed to the doctrines main tained by the Hon. Gentleman, which, under the pretence of reforming the House of Lords, would destroy the Con stitution. The Hon. Member had referred to a supposed transaction at Coventry, and had stated that 41. a-head had been distributed by the trustees of charitable trusts in that city to persons of peculiar political opinions. The Hon. Member ought not to make such a grave charge without having good and substantial grounds for making it. Mr. VILLIERS congratulated the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) on the course he had determined to adopt with respect to the amendments introduced by the Lords into this Bill. Mr. MORRISON also supported the proposition of the Noble Lord. Colonel SIBTHORP defended the conduct of the House of Lords. The question was then put and the motion agreed to. In reply to a question from Mr. GOUL BURN, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that as the amend ments which had just been disagreed from involved the only material points of difference between the two Houses, as far as the present Bill was concerned, he should think it his duty, after the decision now come to by the House of Commons, to ask a Conference with the House of Lords for the purpose of stating to them the reasons which had in duced the Commons to disagree from the amendments, and which would lead them to prefer the loss of the Bill alto gether rather than assent to it with such provisions as had been inserted into it since it originally left their hands. Their Lordships would then have the opportunity of declarinc , whether they were determined to adhere to their amend meets or not. The motion for a Conference was agreed to for Thurs day next. Lord PALMERSTON brought up some papers re lating to the third instalment of the Greek Loan. BENEFICES PLURALITY BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that the Order of the Day be read for going into Committee on this Bill. Mr. HUME wished, before this motion was carried, to submit to the Noble Lord whether, at the close of the ses sion, it was expedient to proceed with this Bill, and whe ther it was possible that due consideration could be given to it ? He submitted to the Noble Lord, that as he bad agreed to put off other Bills relating to the Church, it would be well if he would not now proceed with the present measure, but allow it to go over till the next session, along with the Dean and Chapter Bill. In the meantime, as the Commissioners had taken upon them selves to new-model the dioceses of the bishops, they could also take upon themselves to new-model the various livings in the country, and take into their conside ration whether there were not more livings than ought to exist, whether some livings were not larger than they ougbt to be, whether others might not be extended, and whether different duties and incomes might not be affixed to them. By that means the Noble Lord would be able to fulfil the wishes of the best friends of the Church, and an end would be put to the eternal trouble which the Church now gave to the Legislature of the country ; for what with the Church in Ireland and the Church in England the business of the nation was absolutely stopped, and it almost required a Parliament of itself to deal with those two subjects. He could not allow this Bill to go on, which would give a sanc tion to pluralities which were now illegal, and which was a partial and garbled measure as regarded reform, without entering his protest against it. There were seven or eight Bills on the table, all of which were of much more import , ance than this in its present imperfect state. Why should they be postponed? What had become of the Marriage Bill, the Registration 9 Bill, th e N ewspa p er Bill? He had received a communication from the Hon. Member for Greenock, stating that he had left London under the im pression that this Bill would not be proceeded with this session. Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. Rippon the Member for Gateshead, had also expressed their opinion that this Bill would not be again brought on. He therefore hoped the Noble Lord would not persevere with the measure. Mr. WILKS should join with his Hon. Friend in en treating the Noble Lord not to press forward this measure during the present session. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had hardly expected to have such a request made to him as had been made by the Hon. Gentlemen who had just spoken. At the time the Bill came down from the House of Lords, he over and over again declared that it was his wish to press this measure forward. But it was urged upon him more than once that there were other Bills of great importance waiting to be sent up to the House of Lords ; he had, therefore, re peatedly deferred this Bill, not because he was not willing to bring it forward, but because other Bills required to be advanced in their several stages. Having so deferred it, however, that was now made an argument against his pro ceeding any further with it this session. It had been said that this measure ought to have been as great in its leading enactments as the Reform Bill or the Municipal Corpora tions Bill. Now, he never expected to bring forward any measure of that kind respecting the Church. There was a vast distinction between the two former cases and the present. With regard to the Reform Bill they could at once exclude a great number of boroughs and erect a new plan of Parliamentary representation. So with respect to the Municipal Corporation Bill, they could enact that all old Corporations should at once cease, and that no new Corporations should be erected. But in this case, where the interests and incomes of individuals were concerned, it was quite im possible to proceed in such a manner. They could not say that a man holding two benefices within a certain distance should immediately forfeit one of them, neither could they say that a bishop, who was at present living, should be subjected to a great reduction of the income of his benefice. It appeared to him that this Bill would do a great deal to prevent what he considered to be a great abuse, and for which the law at present afforded no remedy. The ec clesiastical canons and ecclesiastical courts would not allow pluralities beyond the distance of 35 miles, but he did not believe that the courts of law afforded any remedy against two livings being held together at the distance of 300 or 400 miles apart. If he were to agree to the postponement of the Bill, such pluralities as these would continue ; be lieving, then, that this Bill would be of very great advan tage, and would go a great way in reforming the abuses of the Church, and considering also that it had come down to them from the House of Lords, he was disposed to perse vere in it. Every body wished to get rid of pluralities. The Hon. Member had said that the Bills sent up from this House to the House of Lords were almost uniformly rejected. But with respect to this Bill they might be quite sure that no such course would be pursued, as it had been already assented to by the Lords. Mr. HUTT did not think that the Noble Lord was making a discreet use of his unquestionable right of pres sing forward this Bill under the circumstances now existing. It was true the evil of pluralities would in some degree be remedied, but there was no regulation whatever made with regard to the incomes of the clergy. It would still be pos sible for the golden prebend of Durham, and the rectory of Stanhope, to be enjoyed by the same person at the same time ; and he would ask the Noble Lord whether that was right, or whether it gave him satisfaction ? Mr. C. PELHAM was of opinion, that if it were not disrespectful to the House of Lords, it would be in many respects advantageous if this measure were postponed till next session. After a few words from the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Lennard, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Wakley, and some other Honourable "Members— The SPEAKER put the question that he do now leave the Chair. Mr. HUME was bound to take that opportunity of stating that as the Noble Lord would not agree to any reasonable course, be felt bound to express his disapproval of the course his Majesty's Government had taken. It was highly objectionable for the House to lend itself to a Bill like that, which was an abortion of Reform. If the Noble Lord would alter the second and third clauses, by enacting that no person should hold more than one dignity or one benefice ; if he would be revenged on the Lords in this way, he (Mr. Hume) would go into Committee, and assist in passing the Bill. Let them resolve that pluralities from henceforth should be at an end, and they had ample means for the maintenance of every existing. clergyman. He ob jected to proceeding with this Bill, because the Church Revenue Bill—an excellent one in itself—had been stopped by some unseen agency. Why did not the Church Disci pline Bill go on ? Had any Bishop put a spoke in the wheel —(Hear, and question.) He concluded with moving that the Bill be taken into consideration on that day three months, for the purpose of getting rid of it for the Session. Mr. LE N NARD supported the amendment. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said his Hon. Friend the Member for Middlesex complained that they had not pro ceeded with the Bill for the augmentation of the value of small benefices. He (Lord J. Russell) was anxious to carry that Bill, but had not persisted in moving its progress in consequence of the opposition he met with in the House. (Hear, hear)—and in the face of which be could hardly hope to carry it.—(Hear, hear.) Those whO originated that opposition now came forward and blamed him for not persisting in carrying that measure.—(Hear, hear, hear.) If he had had no other opposition to meet with on that Bill than that of the deans and chapters, he certainly should not have postponed the Bill. He thought it quite right to adopt measures to get rid of pluralities and to enforce resi dence, and also that some means should be adopted for the augmentation of the value of small livings, and had had hopes that that object would have been effected by the Bill he had introduced during the present session. If, however, this measure before the House passed, he trusted that be fore next year, by the changes that would be effected, they would be the better enabled to carry into operation means for the attainment of the latter object. He, however, begged to repeat that it was not his fault that the measure alluded to by his Hon. Friend had not passed into a law, but he had postponed it in consequence of the opposition made to it in that House. He hoped and trusted that the measuri that would be brought forward on the subject next session would be considered as an excellent Bill. Mr. AGLIONBY protested against the Bills respec ting the Church being proceeded with, during the presen Session. Mr. C. PELHAM quite concurred in the propriety o postponing this Bill until the next Session. The House then divided—. Far going into Committee. For postponing the Bill Majority The House then went into Committee Upon clause 2 being proposed, Mr. HUME moved, as an amendment upon the clause, the following :—" That from and after the passing of this Act no spiritual person holding preferment in the Church of the value of three hundred pounds net shall hold any other preferment therewith." Mr. WILKS cordially supported the amendment. Sir R. INGLIS strongly objected to the amendment. Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not support the amend. ment. 66 28 -38 Mr. D. W. HARVEY asked if it were the intention of Government to give to the country a real, wholesome, in telligent system of Church Reform Here they were in the middle of August, when many were looking forward to the Ist of September—(A laugh)—with a measure before them containing provisions for maintaining high livings in the Church so numberless, that it was impossible for any body in the twenty-four hours, who had anything else to do that was worth doing, to make himself acquainted with the subject ; and if individuals ventured to oppose the Bill they heard the vulgar cry raised against the Lords that they were kicking out measures of Reform. But the Lords were not opposed to this Bill ; they were perfectly satisfied with it ; it entirely met their views. This was not only the Government of the Lords, but it was a lordly Government. They lose their places ! Not at all ; they were floating with perfect safety on the tide of episcopal satisfaction. In no case ought there to be more than one living vested in the same person. The object of the Bill was not to make the Church useful, was not to apply the income to practical pur poses, but to keep the existing system as tight as possible. Lord J. RUSSELL said there had been a great variety of plans proposed to-night, and no two exactly similar. The Hon. Member for Southwark had his plan ; the Hon. Member thought that the only plan which could give satis faction to this country was one to take away the 3,000,000/. or whatever the amount might be, and divide it in certain proportions or in equal proportions among all the ministers. Thus, if an individual had estimated a living at 6001. a-year, and bad given a proportional price for it, the Hon. Member would proceed to take away that living (3001.) without granting compensation—(" No, no !") and would transfer this amount to the smaller livings. He was glad to hear the Hon. Member for Finsbury dissent from the motion. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE understood that all vested in terests were to be held sacred. There was nothing so new in the proposal. Mr. Pitt's plan was, that the income of the Church should be paid into the Exchequer, and that the amounts of the livings should be thence doled out to the Clergy. Mr. D. W. HARVEY said that the Ministers ought to abandon the measure for this session. The amendment was withdrawn. Mr. HUME then proposed as an amendment, that after the passing of this Act, no individual holding one or more benefices should accept a dignity or office in a cathedral ; and that no person holding one or more dignity should ac cept of any other dignity or benefice. Mr. T. DUNCO MBE had another proposition to make ; it was that the Chairman report progress. He was sure the Noble Lord must feel the impossibility of passing this Bill during the pr esen t sess i on. Th ey were now dis cussing this measure for four hours, and they had only passed one clause. If they were to proceed, every other clause would occupy a s muc h ti me , an d th e y would be sit ting until November. There was the Dissenters' Marriage Bill. They ought to recollect that they had done nothing for the Dissenters this session. Now, before they took up the Dissenters' Bill, they ought to look after their own Bill. There were the Registration and the Marriages Mills, and they ought to proceed with them. Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not propose to proceed with the Bills referred to by the Hon. Member for Fin s hurY that night. He thought they should be taken up at an early hour in the evening, and he proposed to go into the consideration of them on Thursday. After a brief discussion, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that if the motion for reporting progress were persisted in, he should not oppose it, as he saw such little hope of their getting further that night. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and the con sideration of the Bill was postponed until Thursday. SLAVE COMPENSATION BILL. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX' CHEQUER, the House went into Committee on this Bill. _ _ . . Mr. HUTT wished to have some explanation as to the precise object of it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that the measure was intended to provide for the sum which had remained, without being raised by the former Bill. He had explained, on a former occasion, the nature of this measure ; and he would now only observe that it was not intended to raise any thing more than the t w enty millions which had been voted. Mr. HUME thought that the exact sum which it WO proposed to raise by this Bill should be stated. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re marked that if the Hon. Member for Middlesex looked into the Bill he would find that it contained the precise sum which he supposed was omitted. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. CIVIL OFFICES DECLARATION BILL. Mr. BAINES, in moving the third reading of this Bill , observed that the object of it was to exempt Quakers and Moravians from taking the oath of office under the Muni cipal Corporations Act. The reason why he did not in" elude the Jews in the provisions of this measure was be cause the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer had already introduced a Bill for the relief of the Jewish Disabilities. Mr. GOULBURNconsidered that this measure, unless it had a genera l e ff ec t w i t h respect to a ll those entertaining conscientious scruples to the present form of the oath, had better be withdrawn. Mr. AGLIONBY was most unwilling to allow the exemption of the Jews from taking the oath in question to depend upon the passing of the measure which was brought forward for the re li e f o f t h at l arge an d respecta b le c l ass o the community from the general disabilities under which they laboured. Colonel SIBTHORP then moved the adjournment . 0f the debate, and th e ga ll ery h av i ng b een cleared for a &yr sion, none took place, and the debate was adjourned until to-morrow. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The report of the Committee of last night was brought up, and several items agreed to. THE MILLION LOAN. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the further suspension of the payment of the instalments due on the loan granted for the relief of the Irish clergy. The object of the Bill was the same as that which he had brought forward last session' though it was somewhat differently provided for by the proposed measure. It was intended that the suspension of the payments should take place only in certain cases. Lord MORPETH could state to the House that it wag the intention of the Noble Duke, whose name had been in' troduced in the last debate on the subject of Irish Titheg , to hold himself answerable for his share of the loan, no matter what measure was passed upon the subject. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill, and the other Orders of the day having been disposed of, the House ad' ourned at a quarter to two o'clock. • A thunder -storm, although of short duration, create d great alarm in Manchester last week. It appeared to burst over the north of the town, and the tremendous claps o f thun der succeeding the flashes of lightning (which were of deeper red than usual) at an interval of a very few seconds, indicated the proximity of the electric fluid. The lightning was ob served playing aroun d t h e ta ll ch i mney at the dye-.works of Messrs. Clemson and Co., Horrocks ; and a m an w ho via l employed in a chamber abutting on the chimney received a shock, which for a time hurt his eyes exceedingly, but not s e as permanently to impair his sight. The electric fluid al° struck a chimney at the back of the Manchester workhous e ' having apparently been attracted from the roof along an iro n tie which is attached to an iron binder round the chimocY' about nine yards above the roof. Hence it seems to has! passed off at the top of the chimney, hurling off the slate' forming the vents, and two large slabs of stone on which they rested. Many of the smaller rivers were flooded from th e heavy rain. LORD ERROLL.—The new Lord-Lieutenant o f tile county has, during the few days he has been among us, lual_ e e rapid strides in popularity. On Wednesday, h e di ne d tu Lieutenancy in the Assembly-rooms; on Friday, h e met the Trades in Trinity Hall ' • and, during the week, be v i s i te d se veral public works i n the city and neighbourhood. On a ll occasions he has been received in the most flattering manner - We are only repeating the sentiments of all who have had the pleasure of meeting his Lordship, when we state that he is in a fair way to b ecome one o f t h e most popular Lords-Lieutena nt in Scotland. I n f act , our citizens are quite in raptures wit e him. Lady Erroll and Lord Kilmarnock are both equally fa vourites with the public._Aberdeen Herald. On Tuesday evening last, as Mr. Balmer, jun. °; f Elton, near Stockt on , was wa lki ng i n a plantation near bl farm, accomp an i e d b y a d og, he observed that the anima had found something extraordinary, and on going up disco vered, to hi s grea t surpr i se and horror, that it was the lee' r human being. On making search in the immediate neigh bourhood h e f oun d l y i ng in a ditch, the mutilated body o f a female, the head having been torn off. On examining Dr. dress, it wa s ascerta i ne d to b e the remains of a p oo r Nvotila" . of Stockt on , name d Jane Lister, who had been missing stn s the 13th of May. On the following morning, the bead ^- d1 discovered at some di stance f rom the place where the b° was laid, an d a razor was a l so found near the s p o t„—Stoaiv' Observer. COURAGE.—The following instance of intrepidi t n i was lately e v i nce d b y a l a d a b out twe l ve years o f age. AWI named Benjamin Williams, having recently entered a cottage at Cuckfi e ld an d s t o l en a watc h, was d etecte d i ya the act by tilt; boy in q ues ti on . Th e li tt l e f e ll ow at once attacked t h e OW but was speedily shaken off by him. Nothing d au nted, be s c u ever, he sprung on the p r i soner ' s b ac k, declaring that if t prisoner ran away he should take him with him. He 6 15 so tight to the prisoner that the latter was unable to get big of him, and was taken in that situation with the boy on back. If we except Milton, no writer during the revolut ion of 1649 can approach Sieges, Mi ra b eau , Benjamin Constl y i still less Carrell. This last close, fi rm , a bl e an d logs ce writer, has in his manner something of the positive eloque b ° l9 , of facts ; his deep and grave style m a y b e compare d with tory recorded by monuments. —Chateau/re/and. CO The salmon fishings on th e T a y, w hi c h hard it w e unsuccessful during the greater part of the season, hav e beg to improve considerably; but owing to the frequent f reshes the river, from the late heavy rains, the take has been ve partial at the different stations.—Edinburgh Cenral it. The German C our i er says, " Th e thole ra in, the Lombardo-Venetian States has produced such a uanie in rt nit towns where th ere are s ilk manufactories that the greater r he of the workm en h ave fl e d . We learn from Gratz that I t o, disease also prevails in Styria, and has even reached Pil Io and travelled from Cylley to the environs of Marburg . - 01 Upper Styria it h as a d vance d as f ar as Judenbiarg. It is , - at increasing in C ar i nt hi a , an d h as b roken out w ith v irulent ee Volkermarke. In the Ukrain, it has subsided sensibly 5111 ,,i July the sth, b u t t h e cases were still sufficiently numero us fatal to require a further supply of medical melt from Gratz. iv MURDERS IN GLA SGOW . --With in thes e fe „at weeks the authoriti es h ave entere d upon t h e i n iestigatt ° three cases of m ur d er . Th e c i rcumstances atte riding two " c 1 3 these, as far as we h ave l earne d , h ave b een a l ret sdy e°tlda, the other came into th e h an d s o f t h e M ag i stratos yeste shortly after the alleged murder was committe d. Th e in cused is a bird-fancier, of the name of Maxwell, residitgefeo the OldWynd, an E ng li s h man , w h o , w i t h hi s w if e , has 0 01. frequently convi c t e d o f var i ous o ff ences, an d sent to Bride„ e era From the statement of persons in the neighbourho od, it afr o a that this man had, in the morning, followed hi s -wife !n or shop to which she went for change of a 11. note,. arid it is eu tlf posed they had quarre ll e d a b out t h e money . S u beetkt i os e, cries of " mu r d er " were h ear d procee di ng f rom tl,ei . ,r P oet! and very soo n a ft er i t was reporte d to t h e po li ce that lu ll o no had killed his wife. Captain Miller went to the house' t the found the woman d ea d ; an dtha ,on inquiry, he fou.nd One husband had gone out on pretence of fetching a su rge ° thsl of the police-officers, an active man, who has ch arg " a lei , district, had heard that Maxwell had been work lag!' by his in Broad-street, and that some money was due 1,0 u isit° employer. It struck him that the money wo uld be ry n cl li n to in case of the man a bsconding, and o ff h e wen t t o the g ot intercept Maxwell, if he should call. Th e offi cer Roo' to the proper quarter, for, on approaching the mill, he ith the person he was in conversation with in compattY other man, and took him prisoner. Maxw.3ll, on t re , secured, burst into tears. He ac k now l e dged, b ° w est' gretted, that he had struck his w if e , an d be With" edly said she had been a good woman to him. be en in an hour after the murder was said to have The committed the man was lodged in the police-office.,, e dged body of his wife was also conveyed thither, and y o reti in the Old Buildings. The magistrates immediately el ' c oat into the investigation of the case. There are three with o re a young boy, son of the prisoner, and two women who to in the house at the tim e the crime was committed. Th use d women, we learn, st a t e t h at the prisoner struck tbedetTbif three or four times over t h e arm with a thick s tick statement is, to a certain extent, corro borated by the al ir ante of the arm, which is much discoloured. The wits le state further that the prisoner kicked the de ceased eel breasts and th e abdomen. From all that has ben.ennolebartlei it appears that the unfortunate woman was in 5. - n j ai, ! , - , 0 previous to this assault, and that the violence thea was sufficient to cause her death. A medical ex uu"7 l takes place to day, and it is expected that the_ . e ..... 0 0 ,7, 1 cm i er ready to-night to be sent off to the Crown counsel " / " . " 7 Chronicle. • •••